It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. - Anthony Trollope

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Needless to deny that the normal London plumber is a dishonest man. We do not even allow ourselves to think so. That question, as to the dishonesty of mankind generally, is one that disturbs us greatly; — whether a man in all grades of life will by degrees train his honesty to suit his own book, so that the course of life which he shall bring himself to regard as soundly honest shall, if known to his neighbours, subject him to their reproof. We own to a doubt whether the honesty of a bishop would shine bright as the morning star to the submissive ladies who now worship him, if the theory of life upon which he lives were understood by them in all its bearings.